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...Amateur. In Norfolk, Mass., two lifers on the state prison debating team continued a three-year undefeated record-against such opponents as Oxford, Cambridge, M.I.T., Harvard-when they took the affirmative on the question "Bank Robbing Is Too Easy," downed the debating team of McGill University...
...Agnes Szabo was bounced from the team for life for smuggling 150 pairs of nylons. ¶Poland's all-star soccer forward, Kazimierz Trampisz, is getting flayed by both Radio Warsaw and Warsaw's newspaper, Sztandar Mlodych. His shocking behavior, say Trampisz' critics, rates him a three-year suspension. In a game at Cracow, his temper stoked with vodka, Trampisz dropped his shores, and gesticulated at the crowd. Once before, reported the paper, ''he dropped his shorts and stuck out toward the public that part of his body below the back." To make matters worse...
Personal Traits. A small, darting man with jutting jaw and deep blue eyes, he guards his health (he had a three-year bout with tuberculosis as a youth) by riding horseback often, spending each weekend at the house he was born in, to which he has added a top story and a green-tiled bath. A dynamic orator with a superb rabble-raising style, he talks to his people nowadays in weekly radio chats, using simple Arabic and vivid images. He dislikes administrative responsibility and paper work, loves parties and the theater, seldom dines with fewer than 20. A light...
There Pierre discovered the excitement of chemistry. Fascinated, he was soon spending his weekends poring over the science exhibits in Paris' "Discovery Palace." Later, at the three-year Welding Institute of the Ministry of Education, he spent every spare moment cramming chemistry, texts, managed to sneak in 15 minutes of study before school and 15 minutes at lunchtime. With a near photographic memory, he had no trouble with his welding courses. Says he: "All I have to do is take the dictation down, and I remember...
...officers have been notably wide-ranging in their interests; one chief of staff, Yigael Yadin, left his job to study archaeology at Oxford, is now Israel's chief expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Dayan's successor, 38-year-old Major General Haim Laskov, recently took a three-year leave for the study of political economy and philosophy...